The (Unofficial) Google New Media Art Grant Part New Media Artwork, Part New Media Art Funding Source As a way for the new media arts community to fund itself, and using Google AdSense to generate ads based upon the terms grants, new media and art, revenue created by ad click-throughs will be collected into grants of $1000 and used to fund web-based new media art projects. Grant application details will be available as soon as the first $1000 has been collected. Ad page impressions as of July 31, 2011: 33,127Ad clicks as of July 31, 2011: 310Funds raised as of July 31, 2011: $308.96Grant 1 Juror: Constant Dullaart (new media artist) Grant 2 Juror: Michael Mandiberg (interdisciplinary artist, designer and scholar) Grant 3 Juror: xtine burrough (media artist, educator and author)

Michael Demers is a new media artist and educator. His work "incorporates culture and cultural identity in a synthesis of critical investigation and his own adolescent preoccupation with toys and other weird ephemera." He has taught college-level digital art and new media courses since 2007.
He has exhibited internationally, most recently at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery (Boston, MA), the Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD), and Arteria “Internet Livre” (São Paulo, Brazil). He is a member of the White Columns Artist Registry (New York), the Rhizome Curated ArtBase (New Museum, New York), and is a core commentator for TINT Arts Lab (London, UK). He is a contributing author for Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design (Routledge Press) and Foundations of Digital Art and Design (Pearson/New Riders), and is a curator on maps-dna-and-spam.
Michael Demers received his BFA from Florida Atlantic University, his MFA from Ohio University, and a Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Diplom from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany.
"I am interested in how the things we do, the ways in which we occupy our time, affects our place in the world and the ways in which we move through time and space. It is the ephemera that I find fascinating — the toys and stories, collections, habits, hopes and beliefs, and the vestiges of those experiences that linger in the ether, that define us both personally and culturally..."